She refused to accept that women could only perform certain jobs and became the first woman to hold a job in the U.S. Patent Office and one of the first women to hold a government job, period. She then traveled to the front lines during the Civil War to help take care of wounded soldiers and eventually founded the United States Red Cross.

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